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Smashing Magazine has just released fantastic St. Valentine’s icon set, which is available in transparent PNGs as well as Photoshop PSDs (128×128 px) and are perfect for any projects you have coming up for St. Valentine’s Day.

Valentine’s icon set is completely free to use for commercial or personal applications without any restrictions.

Social media integration has become an important part of modern web design. Web Icon Set has just released a set of free social media stamp collection to brand your work. All of them are highly recognizable by people.

Social Media Stamp Collection contains 100 most favorite social services and applications. It includes PNG and PSD source file, so that you can change the color easily. You are allowed to use these icons in any type of project. And please don’t forget to share them with your awesome friends.

DefaultIcon is a repository of elegant, visually unified, minimal icons with crystal clear clarity, based on black color. It can be used for UI design on web, portable devices (iPhone, iPad, Android compatible devices, other smartphones etc) , desktop applications, and generally any kind of electronic or mechanic machinery interface.

The set is completely customizable as it is available in eps format. The package also includes a png format , in black color, and sizes 16×16, 32×32, 48×48, 64×64, 128×128, 256×256. The icons are free for redistribution, commercial and non-commercial, as long as the license is passed along unchanged and in whole, with credit to interactivemania.

Map Icons Collection is a set of more than 700 free icons to use as placemarks for your POI (Point of Interests) locations on your maps. You can use them on Google Maps with the “My maps / my places” feature or automatically by using the Google Maps API.

All of the map icons are organized into logical color coded categories, for better and quicker overview, you get a complete and diverse collection of unique markers for point of interests, for example cinemas, hotels, banks, restaurants and stores.

We have got a really nice collection of Free Web Icons for Different Purposes. So what if we just need more unique looking icons but cannot afford custom icons design? We may consider buying premium stock icons in this case.

Stock icons are usually the collections of specific icons, which stand for particular themes such as E-Commerce, Applications, Pictogram and etc. Some of our readers have asked where we can get quality premium stock icons at a very low price. Therefore, we have compiled a list of 20 Best Places to Buy Professional Stock Icons.

Please also stay tuned with our Free Icons section, which is updated regularly.

Cotyledon Mini Icons designed by Web Icon Set, released exclusively here at WebAppers, features 20 beautiful 16x16px icons. Each icon comes in PNG format. You can use them on both personal and commercial projects.

You can now design faster wireframes and create better mockup deliverables in Illustrator. You can customize easily the vectors GUI elements to your own needs : you can easily resize, color or tweak their appearance.

Open Source Gesture Library is built upon an open source gesture framework, allowing developers to customize and extend the “gesture object” to create support for new gestures. You can download all free gesture and multitouch illustrations and icons. A variety of formats including scaleable formats are available.

Iconic is a minimal set of icons consisting of 136 marks. To give the greatest flexibility, the icon set packages all icons in PNG, SVG, SWC, OFT/TTF/EOT and Omnigraffle stencil formats. Iconic tries to work with various tools/workflows to make your life a bit easier.

All raster-format icons come in a wide variety of colors in order for greater convenience. The colors hit all the major hues in the spectrum as well as many colors used in the scheme on this site.This set is currently licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 license.